Sweetness & Ruin
Elizabeth Maddock DillonSugar—from the 17th-century plantation to today's epidemic of diabetes. Racial capitalism, monoculture, cake.
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I'm writing a book about sugar—from the 17th-century plantation to today's epidemic of diabetes. Professor of literature, diabetic, trail runner, feminist, prone to rumination.
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